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In our latest podcast episode, we use ChatGPT to name an Emperor’s Brewing beer in honour of Paul’s cat, Steve. It’s goes as well as you’d imagine.

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To celebrate the completely mundane process of rebranding our RSS feed, the Fantasy Beer Name Podcast - our monthly dose of boozy nonsense - now drops early for all free tier Patrons.

So why not sign up and enjoy it earlier (and without the pesky YouTube ads).

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TONIGHT @ 7:30pm 🍻
We’ll be going live to give away 3 Cloudwater boxes to our Patreon subscribers - courtesy of Brewser

It’ll be a private link but you can sign up for FREE on our Patreon to watch live, send adoring messages and/or scathing hate mail.

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YouTube video by PlanetBeerTV Craft beer is too cheap - the uncomfortable truth?

Things suck in the scene right now. Rising energy costs, VAT, business rates, vanishing tax relief. But what can be done about it? We spoke with our local bottle shop owner about the harsh realities facing the industry at the moment, and some potential solutions.

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A video 5 years in the making, we do a vertical tasting of three different vintages of Orval - 9 months, 2 years and 5 years.

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New episode of Hop One. Jack from Baron tells us about his favourite hops at the moment and how he likes to use them:

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Fresh from a successful beer launch and boozy trip to Joule MCR, we’re back with another beefed up news round. We also give our Patreon a push and have a civilised debate about politics in beer.

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Oh god, we’ve only gone and launched an OnlyCans. Check it out if you like what we do, so we can do more of it.

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One of the finest purveyors of beer in Birmingham now stocking our birthday collab with Baron. Get on it! 🍻🫶

We had a great night launching our collab beer with Baron last night. Naturally, we had to take Jack for a pint of Bathams after the event.

YouTube video by PlanetBeerTV Brewing a Verdant-inspired DIPA (with Baron) - Part 2

🍻 PART 2 🍻 It's time to brew an interpretation of one of our favourite Verdant DIPAs with Jack Baron, for our 3rd birthday. Go watch the video now to find out how we got on…

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We’ve also managed to (kinda over) sell out the Birthday Beer Launch and Meet the Brewer’s event. We’re looking forward to taking Jack for a pre-event pint of Bathams 🍻

We’ve had an amazing response to Part 1 of our birthday DIPA documentary. We’re just putting the finishing touches on Part 2, which will be released this week… along with the beer of course 🍻

Here’s Part 1 of our birthday DIPA brew with Baron:

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We brewed a beer with Baron for our 3rd birthday 🥳 And we’re doing a special first pour event for it with Jack at our favourite bottle shop - The Hop Vault in Stourbridge.

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The podcast is back for 2025. We talk about some big plans for the channel's 3rd birthday & discuss some of January's big beer news. Including dead heritage beer, wanky industry regulators & supermarket pubs.

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Not much to be said here. We bought and drank the world’s strongest beer so you don’t have to… And you shouldn’t.

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Complaint upheld against Little Mesters Brewing tap handle and pump clip | The British Guild of Beer Writers A complaint against a Sheffield based Brewery’s tap handle and pump clip has been upheld by the alcohol industry’s Independent...

On one hand, the Portman Group are joyless shills, but on the other hand… OH MY GOD! HE’S GOT A KNIFE!

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Looks like the West Midlands is the Bathams brew pub? The Vine aka Bull & Bladder. Cracking choice if so. 🍻

Drinking the world's strongest beer so you don't have to. 75%, this. Jesus wept

That’s a shame, and broadly sweeping. I can count on one hand the amount of times we’ve used GenAI in 3 years. I feel you’re conflating an opinion in defence of AI tools with our own credibility. Personally find that unfair.

Matt, I trained in Film Production Technology at uni and have been a filmmaker and editor for nearly 20 years. My day job is in a film agency that has been looking at, monitoring and testing much of these new GenAI features. Whether you like it or not, it’s a solution.

Truly hyperbolic. I can understand your outrage, writers finally have technology breathing down their necks. In the film and video making art space though, we’ve been dealing with ‘How much? I can just film that myself on my phone’ for over a decade. It won’t replace you.

For sure. I see it more and more in the day job now, 2 years ago I was worried. But the more I’ve seen & used it, the more confident I am there is no replacement for people in art. Most of it is uncanny slop, and people are becoming more trained to spotting it a mile off. Good discussion btw 👍🏻

Sure, but there’s varying degrees (and as Jeff puts it nuance). People using Canva and its AI features to create posters or YT thumbnails, for instance. GenAI democratises a process, similar to the way DSLRs and camera phones made everybody a filmmaker and a photographer.

As a filmmaker, both on YouTube and as a professional video editor, hard disagree with this take. There’s a lot wrong with GenAI, but a puritanical stance that it can never be used in any circumstance is wild.

'You don't need work-life balance' says Brewdog founder James Watt The businessman stepped down as chief executive of the company to spend more time with his family and travel

This guy is truly beyond parody.

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Something a bit different this week, as we look at the history of Ginger Beer while drinking an original 1760’s recipe courtesy of Yorkshire’s very own DMC Brewery.

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This was a local pub to us, so we’d be happy to do our bit in keeping this in the public conscience.

FWIW, we’ve decided to jack Twitter/X in. We just haven’t told anybody on there that we have. Feel free to adore/correct us here or on Instagram. 🍻